How much did CLUNE CARES FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of CLUNE CARES FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2023

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2024

backpacksalvation armywounded warriorlukelutheran churchchildren'skids

2025

food banksan franciscovolunteer firegoldiespecialchildren'sgreater

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 136 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k111 grants · $443k
$10k–50k25 grants · $417k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$483k

Total assets

Largest grants

REVOLUTION WORKSHOP$33,050
FOLDS OF HONOR$27,800
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$25,000
LORENZO'S HOUSE$25,000
COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT (CORE)$25,000
CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$25,000
ANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION$23,500
IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP$22,700
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$20,000
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC$17,900
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS$17,000
HARRINGTON CANCER & HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
PROJECT RENEWAL INC$12,804
GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH$12,470
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NY$12,460

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$941k · 62 repeat orgs$959k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 78 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$941k

$489k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+46%

Still filing today

69%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

GF
GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH
3× · 2023–2025 · $126k · revenue +150%
RW
REVOLUTION WORKSHOP
3× · 2023–2025 · $82k · revenue +387%
HC
HFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS
3× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +75%

Funded once

HC
HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MAUI STRONG FUND
one grant, 2023 · $50k
AH
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +14%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHENgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +1417%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health

Lets Win Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

Let's win pancreatic cancer foundation is a web-based platform that enables doctors, scientists and patients to share fast-breaking information on potentially life-saving pancreatic cancer treatments & clinical trials.

Health

The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health

A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth

Human Services

University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation

The mission shall be to provide fundraising, advocacy and advisory support for cancer research at the comprehensive cancer center at the university of chicago.

Health

Gamechanger Charity

Gamechanger leverages technology and innovation to help children and their families who encounter life threatening illnesses.

Health

Chicago Foundation for Women

Chicago foundation for women (cfw) invests in women and girls as catalysts, building strong communities for all. the foundation envisions a world in which all women, girls, trans and gender non binary individuals have the opportunity to…

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Foundation for Women's Cancer

To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.

Health

Children's Tumor Foundation

The children's tumor foundation is dedicated to ending neurofibromatosis (nf). our mission is to: a.) fund research, b.) increase public awareness, c.) support patients and families, d.) encourage establishment of nf clinics.

Health

Women's Foundation of California

Women's foundation of california amplifies the voices and experiences of community leaders, redistributes knowledge, power, and resources, and mobilizes communities and funders to advance justice for all.

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Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch funds & supports children's cancer research & provides education & resources to all those affected by children's cancer.

Health

Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Ravinia Festival Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/159

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,406

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

145 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

143/145

Grantees still filing

108/145

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,117,340Health$283,999Human Services$162,100Education$145,136Employment$81,850International$56,700Arts & Culture$52,364

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Executive Construction FoundationIL18× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Executive Construction Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Skender Foundation · Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund · Cme Group Community Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation CLUNE CARES FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE TORCH FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~25 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 133638911 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE TORCH FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 25 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Clune Cares Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Clune Cares Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CLUNE CARES FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

145 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Clune Cares Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

CLUNE CARES FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

145 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Clune Cares Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph